Jean-Francois Lamarque

Jean-François Lamarque is the Director of the Climate and Global Dynamics (CGD) Laboratory.  He was the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Chief Scientist (2014-2018).  He was a Lead Author on Chapter 8 (Radiative forcing) of IPCC AR5, published in 2013. He is the author or co-author of over 250 papers in refereed journals. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) in 1993, with Pr. A. Berger and Dr. G. Brasseur as joint advisors.  He was an ASP postdoc 1993-1995.  He has worked at NCAR since then, except for a one-year leave of absence to join the NOAA Chemical Science Division (2008-2009).

He has developed the original implementation of interactive tropospheric chemistry in the CESM (CAM-chem), a feature that is now fully supported and widely used in the community.

His research focuses on the use of models to understand the long-term changes of short-lived climate forcers (i.e. ozone, aerosols and methane).  He has published several papers on the transient behavior of tropospheric chemistry since the mid-nineteenth century.  In particular, he has made use of ice-core measurements of black carbon and sulfate aerosols to validate model simulations of those compounds. Other applications include the modeling of paleo-atmospheres under massive chemical perturbations. 

Jean-François Lamarque full CV, including publications is available here (updated October 2021)